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Wednesday Mutter

It's Wednesday and I don't feel like working. This is probably because I didn't get a decent sleep last night. It felt rather warm even if we're still supposedly in winter. We did get one big snow storm, but this winter was the warmest I've ever experienced while living in Maryland. I'm so afraid we'll skip spring and head straight to an excruciatingly hot and humid summer.

I hope I'm wrong.

Today, we're expected to reach 79 degrees. That is 20 degrees above normal temperatures for this time of the year.

This is a park close to our house.

On another note, I am recovering well from my surgery. Thank you to all your well wishes and prayers. I think that my system is still adjusting to the loss of my gallbladder, but I've been feeling much better the past few days. The stitches are coming out next week.

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Glad to hear you are on the mend. All last night when I couldn't go to sleep I was thinking I would call in sick today, because in addition to my lack of sleep, I also feel really tired and had not gotten the necessary rest over the weekend, but when I woke up this morning I felt energetic. I suppose I have to keep that sick call when I feel good to go somewhere.

I hope there would be spring! I would love to see it in your photos. We are experiencing extra ordinary hotness here in PI too, it's the El Nino phenomenon, I hope it goes away the soonest. It's drying up our soil.

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